Commonwealth v. Strother

The defendant was a member of a grand jury at the Circuit Court of Madison, in September, 1810, and was himself presented by the grand jury for unlawful gaming. At the next term he appeared, and filed his plea by which he prayed that the presentment might be quashed, “because he says that he 187 the said William ^Strother, one of the grand jury who found the presentment aforesaid, at the time of finding the same, held an office, or appointment under the authority of the United States, viz. an appointment to take the census for the county of Madison, and this he is ready to verify, &c.” The…